The drop-off happens in the first ninety seconds.
An internal audience is the least forgiving one there is. They are watching at their desk with email open, and the moment it looks like a badly shot meeting they minimise the window and get on with their day. Attendance figures look fine. Watch time tells the truth.
What changes it is not production value for its own sake. It is that a cut show with clean audio and readable graphics signals the content was worth preparing, so people give it the benefit of the doubt for long enough to hear the message.
We work with internal comms teams, agencies and event producers on town halls, results announcements, all-hands, conferences and awards nights. The recording usually gets more views than the live event, so we build for both.
Exhibition and convention delivery includes multi-day work at the NEC Birmingham and the Blackpool Magic Convention at the Winter Gardens, where multiple halls, long build days and a schedule that changes hourly are the normal shape of the job.
What makes people stay
Watch time, not attendance.
For your procurement team
The paperwork, before you ask for it.
Certificates, method statements and risk assessments go out with the quote rather than on request. It saves a round of emails and it is what most venues want before they let a crew through the door.
Public & products liability
£5,000,000
Any one occurrence. Certificate supplied with the quote.
Employers’ liability
£10,000,000
Any one occurrence, covering our own crew and freelancers.
RAMS
As standard
Risk assessment and method statement written for your venue, not a template.
PAT
All kit tested
Everything that plugs in is PAT tested, with records available on request.
Also on file: hired-in equipment cover to £500,000, and our environmental, equality, anti-bribery, anti-slavery and supplier policies. All of it here ›
Questions comms teams ask.
Why do people drop off our all-hands after five minutes?
Usually because it looks like a meeting rather than a broadcast. One static wide, a slide deck shared badly, and audio off a laptop microphone. A cut production with readable graphics and clean audio holds attention for the same content, because the effort signals the content is worth the time.
Can remote speakers join properly?
Yes. A remote presenter comes in as a proper source with a return feed so they can hear the room and the reaction, rather than being a laptop propped on a lectern. We test their connection with them beforehand rather than five minutes before they speak.
Can the stream be internal only?
Yes. Password protected pages, your intranet, Teams or a private RTMP endpoint. Public and private outputs can also run at once when part of the day is external and part is not.
Do you supply the room sound as well?
No. We take a clean feed from the venue sound desk and mix it for the broadcast, with an ambient microphone as backup. We handle broadcast audio, not PA or sound reinforcement in the room.
Will you need access to our network?
No. We bring bonded 4G and 5G across multiple carriers, so there are no firewall exceptions to request and nothing unfamiliar on your network. Where you have a dedicated tested line we will use it, but guest WiFi never carries a broadcast.
What do we get afterwards?
The full programme record, chaptered where it helps, with captions and a transcript. Most internal comms teams get more use out of the archive than the live event, so it is built to be watchable later rather than dumped as raw files.
When is a cheaper option the right call?
If forty people are watching a fifteen minute update, a Teams call is the honest answer. A crewed production earns its cost when the audience is large, the message matters, or the recording is going to be watched for months. We will say so on the call.
Town hall in the diary?
Tell us the audience size, the venue and whether it is internal or public, and you will have a figure you can take to a budget holder.